{"id":20898,"date":"2017-06-27T13:16:26","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T17:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=20898"},"modified":"2017-06-27T13:18:44","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T17:18:44","slug":"google-website-uptake-since-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/27\/google-website-uptake-since-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Website Adds 100,000 New Sites Since Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On June 13th Google introduced <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/13\/google-mybusiness-website-builder-released-worldwide\/\">Google Website<\/a>, their single page web builder for (very) small businesses, worldwide. The product had been in <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/12\/google-testing-website-builder-within-google-my-business\/\">testing<\/a> since last year and appears to be targeted primarily at developing countries. How is it going two weeks on? How many sites have been built?<\/p>\n<p>I have been tracking the daily increase in the results for the query: site:business.site and recording the changes. Since introduction roughly ~100,000 new websites have been created.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screenshot-2017-06-27-10.17.48.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20901\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screenshot-2017-06-27-10.17.48.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"866\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screenshot-2017-06-27-10.17.48.png 1280w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screenshot-2017-06-27-10.17.48-296x200.png 296w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screenshot-2017-06-27-10.17.48-520x352.png 520w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screenshot-2017-06-27-10.17.48-768x520.png 768w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screenshot-2017-06-27-10.17.48-1024x693.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This works out to roughly 7300 new pages per day since introduction. Hundred thousand here, a hundred thousand there&#8230; soon it adds up to real numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think Google is happy with the numbers?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 13th Google introduced Google Website, their single page web builder for (very) small businesses, worldwide. The product had been in testing since last year and appears to be targeted primarily at developing countries. How is it going two weeks on? How many sites have been built? 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